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It’s that time of the year again, when Canonical kicks off the development cycle of the next
major Ubuntu Linux release, in this case Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), and daily builds
are now available for download.
Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek was the one to announce earlier this week that the upcoming
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system is officially open for development,
with Python 3.10 supported by default.
And now, early adopters and application developers interested in test driving the upcoming release
can now download the daily builds for Jammy Jellyfish, which you can grab from Ubuntu’s
main download servers.
Besides Ubuntu, which offers Desktop flavors for 64-bit and ARM64 (AArch64) architectures,
you will also find daily builds for the Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie,
and Ubuntu Kylin flavors.
As usual, these daily builds are based on the previous Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 21.10
(Impish Indri). This means that they are based on the Linux 5.13 kernel and features mostly
the same package versions, artwork, and desktop environment.
During the development cycle of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, we expect to see some of the newest GNU/Linux
technologies and Open Source software, starting with the transition to OpenSSL 3.0, Go 1.18,
Ruby 3.0, DPDK 21.11, and OpenLDAP 2.6.
I also hope to see new Ubuntu Desktop Installer written in Google’s Flutter SDK, as well
as the GNOME 42 desktop environment, which is slated for release on March 23rd, 2022,
and the Linux 5.17 kernel series, which should arrive in early March if my math is correct.
If you want to keep up with the development of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) during
its six-month-long development cycle, I recommend you to subscribe 9to5Linux channel as I will
try to cover all its major changes until the final release on April 21st, 2022.
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Ubuntu 22.04 won't be released in stable form until 2022. To be more precise, it will be
officially available in April of that year. After all, that is what the 22.04 indicates
-- a two digit year followed by a two digit month.
Of course, before the official release, there will be a Beta and other pre-release versions.
If you like living on the edge, however, you can actually download and install Ubuntu Linux
22.04 immediately. Yes, folks, daily builds (very early versions) of the upcoming operating
system are available starting today.
What do we know about Ubuntu Linux 22.04? At this point, not much. With that said, the
code name is not a mystery -- it will be called "Jammy Jellyfish." More importantly, it will
be an LTS version. This stands for "Long Term Support" and indicates it will be officially
supported until at least 2027.
You can download a daily build of Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) here. Before you
install it, please know that bugs are a guarantee at such an early stage in the development,
and you would have to be crazy to run it on your main PC. To be safe, installing it on
a spare computer or virtual machine would probably be best.
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And we’re off, kids — Ubuntu 22.04 daily builds are now available to download.
Fresh from unveiling the Ubuntu 22.04 codename — “Jammy Jellyfish”, to save you a click
— opening the archives, and sharing a tentative release date on Discourse, the first official
development snapshots in the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cycle are primed for action.
Not that there’s much to see yet, of focus!
At the time I write this the Ubuntu 21.10 release is less than two weeks old so devs
haven’t had a lot of time to do anything. Plus, the first few weeks of any new Ubuntu
development branch is all about getting imports synced, tooling updated, and the requisite
foundations plumbed in for building on later.
Can we expect a few new things this cycle? Likely, including GNOME 41 (or later) and
further work on the new Flatter-based Ubuntu installer.
If you’re technically minded (and like bugs) you can spin up a virtual machine or create
a separate install to install Ubuntu 22.04 daily build and follow along with its development.
Just install updates as they appear and you’ll be riding the 22.04 release cycle like a pro.
Download Ubuntu 22.04 Daily Build Ubuntu daily builds are (as their name suggests)
far from final, finished, or bug-free versions. Do not install an Ubuntu 22.04 daily build
as your primary OS (or as the only OS on your mum’s/boyfriend’s/boss’s laptop).
Use a separate partition, a dedicated development device, or a virtual machine if possible — and
remember to make frequent backups of anything important while using them!
Daily build quality will vary day to day so it’s always best to get the very latest
one and not a snapshot. Usability and/or stability issues should be expected, particularly as
new features are added (or in some cases removed).
All of that caution out of the way
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The development starts for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and daily builds are now available for download.
Ubuntu 22.04 Daily Builds In the official mailing list, Ubuntu announced
that Ubuntu 22.04 is open for development. Following the release of Ubuntu 21.10 a while
back, the team and developers are gearing up to the next major Long Term Support (LTS)
version of Ubuntu – that is – Ubuntu 22.04.
The code name for this release was announced a while back. The code name for Ubuntu 22.04
is Jammy Jellyfish following the letter-based naming conventions.
Everything in the daily build .ISO is almost the same as Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri. Hence,
nothing much to see in terms of new applications or packages.
Being an LTS release, a lot you can expect. Because it will be supported for 5 years following
the LTS release cycle.
Feature Predictions Ubuntu 22.04 should feature GNOME 42 (due
by March 2022), the latest stable Linux Kernel. The exact kernel version is difficult to predict
because LTS Kernel versions are carefully chosen due to their multi-year nature.
As per the release plan, Jammy Jellyfish should bring OpenSSL 3.0, php8.1, Ruby 3.0, Python
3.10, and OpenLDAP2.6.
On the application side, we should expect all the latest upstream versions of the apps
such as LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird.
Whether Firefox should be staying as snap package by default or not, we will see.
Flutter-based new Ubuntu desktop installer should be introduced, as it missed the October
Impish Indri release.
And obviously, a new wallpaper is due.
Download You can download the Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy jellyfish
daily build .ISO
As always, this is a super pre-release .ISO. Unless you want to test something, it is not
recommended to use for the general users at the moment. However, you can always use any
Virtual Machine such as GNOME Boxes or virt-manager to give it a spin.
So, that’s about the predictions and release information known so far. We will feature
our standard release information post once sufficient information is available. So, follow
us to stay updated on this next Ubuntu LTS cycle.
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